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Student Newspaper of the University of Southern California Since 1912 | www.dailytrojan.com | VOL. 177, NO. 13 | Friday september 14, 2012
InDEX 4 · Opinion 5 · Lifestyle 8 · Classifieds 9 · Crossword 12 · Sports
Creative cocktails: Learn
to spice up your usual
drinks. PAGE 5
Redemption: USC looks to win
its first game against Stanford
in three years. PAGE 12
Zhaoyu Zhou | Daily Trojan
Angry birds · Andrew Stalbow, general manager of Rovio, and Lucy Hood, executive director of USC’s
Institute for Communication Technology Management, discuss production of applications like “Angry Birds.”
technology
By chuck uzoegwu
Daily Trojan
Executives from Sony, JibJab
and Rovio were on hand for the
Silicon Beach event this week,
which started with a venture
competition Wednesday and
capped off with addresses from
various leaders in the industry
Thursday.
Notable speakers for the events
included Andrew Stalbow, North
American general manager of
“Angry Birds” creator Rovio, as
well as Evan and Gregg Spiridellis,
co-founders of JibJab.com, who
also unveiled their new company
StoryBots at the event.
Evan and Greg Spiridellis
focused on topics ranging from
the changing dynamics of content
production to changing business
models to their new venture
StoryBots.com.
The Spiridellis brothers made
the point that barriers to entry for
the entertainment industry have
been removed.
“The cost of producing
entertainment has plummeted,”
the Spiridellis brothers said.
“Capital is no longer a barrier to
producing entertainment, it’s all
about talent.”
They also discussed the need to
recognize failing business models
and to move to more successful
ones as a result.
The brothers called JibJab’s
former business model, which
focused on producing political
parodies, “a crappy business
model.”
They discussed how their
company moved from their first
business model, to one that
Event tackles changing
business models in tech
Rovio and JibJab executives
gave speeches at the Silicon
Beach event Thursday.
| see silicon, page 3 |
administration
By rachel bracker
Daily Trojan
The university recently
updated its policies to protect
minors on campus from abuse
and created a series of awareness
programs, The Office of Equity
and Diversity announced to all
students via email Tuesday.
The new policies collectively
formalize procedures on how to
react to and prevent child abuse.
They detail the reporting process
for allegations of child abuse or
neglect, as well as the involvement
of federal Child Services and law
enforcement.
The university also expanded
its criminal background check
policy so that those who have
been convicted of a crime
involving a minor are subject to
further scrutiny.
“The university is firmly
committed to protecting the
safety and well-being of minors
in its care and on our campuses,
such as patients, volunteer
subjects of research, sports camp
attendees and the children in our
daycare and community outreach
programs,” Senior Vice President
of Administration Todd Dickey
University
adds policy
for minors
The Office of Equity and
Diversity created new rules
to protect minors on campus.
| see minors, page 3 |
politics
By valerie yu
Daily Trojan
Once again, as election season
draws near, the issue of student
financial aid is up for debate. In
today’s nation of rising college
tuition amid unfavorable economic
conditions, the increased need for
financial aid — or at least a solution
to this costly issue — takes center
stage for millions of young adults
whose futures might be at stake.
With two months remaining in
the presidential race, both the left
and right have made student aid
a point of focus, most recently at
the Democratic and Republican
conventions.
In promising to make college
more affordable with increased
financial aid through the rise in
the number of federally sponsored
student loans, President Barack
Obama has attacked Republican
presidential nominee Mitt Romney
for, according to The New York
Times, “cutting investments in
education” and “leaving one million
students without scholarships and
reducing financial aid to nearly 10
million.”
In the face of Obama’s challenges,
Romney has countered that the
president’s policies have yielded a
“lost generation” drowning in debt
amid a fruitless job market.
Though most students agree that
aid is a crucial issue, USC students’
reactions to these two approaches
to student aid and the economy run
across the board.
“Romney’s solution is more
sustainable in the long run and
will help us solve this once and for
all, rather than to bring it on to the
next generation,” said PR Director
of USC College Republicans Charles
Epting, a sophomore and double-major
in environmental studies and
geology.
Despite being an ardent believer
of little government intervention in
aid, however, Epting believes that
there are some exceptions.
“It’s fine to have some degree
of federal support. Federal grants
are a good way,” Epting said. “I
myself have government money
helping me through college. I’m not
against totally against government
involvement, but the point is, it’s
run wild — it’s run rampant, and
we’ve reached a point where we
need to start changing.”
On the other hand, junior
Catherine Shieh, a political science
and urban planning major involved
in USC College Democrats, supports
Obama’s stances, arguing that
federal fund cuts go against the one
thing needed for economic growth:
the creation of intellectual capital.
“Let’s say that we don’t have those
loans or that we reduce the number
of loans. Less people are going to
college, and how will we continue
to sustain our intellectual and
creative capital and specialization
in a variety of industries? You can’t
do that without even getting access
to education to begin with,” Shieh
said. “The fact of the matter is that
though we have higher standards
of excellence in education now, we
also have higher cost of living, and
in pursuing education, and with
that sort of problem, what band-aid
can we use? I think that would be
the expansion of loans.”
And yet for some, neither choices
offered in this election satisfy.
Alistair Fortson, a freshman
majoring in philosophy, politics
and law, doesn’t agree with either
candidate.
“I think that just in general,
people say a lot of things, but then
continue to take money out of
education. Especially when it comes
to public schools. I’d really like to
Students react to candidates’ positions on financial aid
The presidential nominees tried to reach out to young voters on the
issue of financial aid, but some students remain unimpressed.
64 PERCENT
of young people ages 18-29 believe the
availability of more quality, full-time jobs upon
graduation is more important than lower
student loan interest rates.
84 PERCENT
of young people ages 18-29 had planned to but
now might delay or not make at all a major life
change or move forward on a major purchase
because of the current state of the economy.
YOUNG VOTERS 2012
26PERCENT
of whom said they would wait to
pay off student loans or other debt.
76 PERCENT
of Millennials plan to vote in the
election for president this year.
Design by Christina Ellis
ELECTION 2012
| see politics, page 2 |

Student Newspaper of the University of Southern California Since 1912 | www.dailytrojan.com | VOL. 177, NO. 13 | Friday september 14, 2012
InDEX 4 · Opinion 5 · Lifestyle 8 · Classifieds 9 · Crossword 12 · Sports
Creative cocktails: Learn
to spice up your usual
drinks. PAGE 5
Redemption: USC looks to win
its first game against Stanford
in three years. PAGE 12
Zhaoyu Zhou | Daily Trojan
Angry birds · Andrew Stalbow, general manager of Rovio, and Lucy Hood, executive director of USC’s
Institute for Communication Technology Management, discuss production of applications like “Angry Birds.”
technology
By chuck uzoegwu
Daily Trojan
Executives from Sony, JibJab
and Rovio were on hand for the
Silicon Beach event this week,
which started with a venture
competition Wednesday and
capped off with addresses from
various leaders in the industry
Thursday.
Notable speakers for the events
included Andrew Stalbow, North
American general manager of
“Angry Birds” creator Rovio, as
well as Evan and Gregg Spiridellis,
co-founders of JibJab.com, who
also unveiled their new company
StoryBots at the event.
Evan and Greg Spiridellis
focused on topics ranging from
the changing dynamics of content
production to changing business
models to their new venture
StoryBots.com.
The Spiridellis brothers made
the point that barriers to entry for
the entertainment industry have
been removed.
“The cost of producing
entertainment has plummeted,”
the Spiridellis brothers said.
“Capital is no longer a barrier to
producing entertainment, it’s all
about talent.”
They also discussed the need to
recognize failing business models
and to move to more successful
ones as a result.
The brothers called JibJab’s
former business model, which
focused on producing political
parodies, “a crappy business
model.”
They discussed how their
company moved from their first
business model, to one that
Event tackles changing
business models in tech
Rovio and JibJab executives
gave speeches at the Silicon
Beach event Thursday.
| see silicon, page 3 |
administration
By rachel bracker
Daily Trojan
The university recently
updated its policies to protect
minors on campus from abuse
and created a series of awareness
programs, The Office of Equity
and Diversity announced to all
students via email Tuesday.
The new policies collectively
formalize procedures on how to
react to and prevent child abuse.
They detail the reporting process
for allegations of child abuse or
neglect, as well as the involvement
of federal Child Services and law
enforcement.
The university also expanded
its criminal background check
policy so that those who have
been convicted of a crime
involving a minor are subject to
further scrutiny.
“The university is firmly
committed to protecting the
safety and well-being of minors
in its care and on our campuses,
such as patients, volunteer
subjects of research, sports camp
attendees and the children in our
daycare and community outreach
programs,” Senior Vice President
of Administration Todd Dickey
University
adds policy
for minors
The Office of Equity and
Diversity created new rules
to protect minors on campus.
| see minors, page 3 |
politics
By valerie yu
Daily Trojan
Once again, as election season
draws near, the issue of student
financial aid is up for debate. In
today’s nation of rising college
tuition amid unfavorable economic
conditions, the increased need for
financial aid — or at least a solution
to this costly issue — takes center
stage for millions of young adults
whose futures might be at stake.
With two months remaining in
the presidential race, both the left
and right have made student aid
a point of focus, most recently at
the Democratic and Republican
conventions.
In promising to make college
more affordable with increased
financial aid through the rise in
the number of federally sponsored
student loans, President Barack
Obama has attacked Republican
presidential nominee Mitt Romney
for, according to The New York
Times, “cutting investments in
education” and “leaving one million
students without scholarships and
reducing financial aid to nearly 10
million.”
In the face of Obama’s challenges,
Romney has countered that the
president’s policies have yielded a
“lost generation” drowning in debt
amid a fruitless job market.
Though most students agree that
aid is a crucial issue, USC students’
reactions to these two approaches
to student aid and the economy run
across the board.
“Romney’s solution is more
sustainable in the long run and
will help us solve this once and for
all, rather than to bring it on to the
next generation,” said PR Director
of USC College Republicans Charles
Epting, a sophomore and double-major
in environmental studies and
geology.
Despite being an ardent believer
of little government intervention in
aid, however, Epting believes that
there are some exceptions.
“It’s fine to have some degree
of federal support. Federal grants
are a good way,” Epting said. “I
myself have government money
helping me through college. I’m not
against totally against government
involvement, but the point is, it’s
run wild — it’s run rampant, and
we’ve reached a point where we
need to start changing.”
On the other hand, junior
Catherine Shieh, a political science
and urban planning major involved
in USC College Democrats, supports
Obama’s stances, arguing that
federal fund cuts go against the one
thing needed for economic growth:
the creation of intellectual capital.
“Let’s say that we don’t have those
loans or that we reduce the number
of loans. Less people are going to
college, and how will we continue
to sustain our intellectual and
creative capital and specialization
in a variety of industries? You can’t
do that without even getting access
to education to begin with,” Shieh
said. “The fact of the matter is that
though we have higher standards
of excellence in education now, we
also have higher cost of living, and
in pursuing education, and with
that sort of problem, what band-aid
can we use? I think that would be
the expansion of loans.”
And yet for some, neither choices
offered in this election satisfy.
Alistair Fortson, a freshman
majoring in philosophy, politics
and law, doesn’t agree with either
candidate.
“I think that just in general,
people say a lot of things, but then
continue to take money out of
education. Especially when it comes
to public schools. I’d really like to
Students react to candidates’ positions on financial aid
The presidential nominees tried to reach out to young voters on the
issue of financial aid, but some students remain unimpressed.
64 PERCENT
of young people ages 18-29 believe the
availability of more quality, full-time jobs upon
graduation is more important than lower
student loan interest rates.
84 PERCENT
of young people ages 18-29 had planned to but
now might delay or not make at all a major life
change or move forward on a major purchase
because of the current state of the economy.
YOUNG VOTERS 2012
26PERCENT
of whom said they would wait to
pay off student loans or other debt.
76 PERCENT
of Millennials plan to vote in the
election for president this year.
Design by Christina Ellis
ELECTION 2012
| see politics, page 2 |